What does it matter? Still would need to have a service contract, and the employee would still be selling it at the same price the retail stores do. Plus it's possible the TSN is assigned to the employee so if it's sold it'd still be on record. TiVo told me in the past that if you sell your equipment to someone else, TiVo would still be able to see the history of the TSN and who the previous owner was. Possible that the employee would get in trouble if caught?